Handstamps tell a story
This cover illustrates one of the reasons many people enjoy postal history - postal markings can tell a story, and there's often an element of mystery.
Handstamp
Strictly speaking, the implement used to apply a postmark by hand, but often used loosely to signify the postmark itself. Historically, some overprints were applied by means of handstamps.
Handstamp: A cancellation or auxiliary marking applied by hand to a cover. Also the device used to apply the cancellation or marking.
Handstamp. Some form of cancellation or postal marking.
Hinge. A tiny piece of glassine-like paper, gummed, folded and then used to mount stamps into an album.
Handstamp - 1) a hand-held device used by a postal worker to cancel a stamp or apply a postal marking 2) the impression left by a handstamp on a cover.
Handstamped Impressions
With all types of handstamps, the sharpness and blackness of the impression vanes with the kind and amount of ink of the pad, the smoothness and hardness of the surface beneath the stamps, ...
Handstamp - a stamp or overprint which has been applied to paper singly and without mechanical means; a hand-held apparatus for printing that is struck on an ink pad and then pressed on paper. The die may be of metal, rubber, or wood.
Handstamp:
Highway Post Office:
Portable mail-handling equipment for sorting mail in transit on highways (normally by truck). The last official U.S. HPO ran June 30, 1974.
A handstamp applied to international letters prior to 1875 showing the charge to be collected from the addressee.
Additional Halfpenny Tax ...
BACKSTAMP - A handstamp applied to the back of a letter, usually indicating date of transit or receipt at the office of destination.
19: Ante Meridiem, morning, coded time handstamps of 1890s. 20: Gibraltar, Imperial Censorship Code, WW II. 21: time of departure for Zeppelin flights.
a: (Fr.) of, to, by, at
Å: one-letter post office name, Norway.
Cachet - Special handstamp (often a 'rubber stamp'), manuscript note, adhesive label or printed design borne by a postal item and confirming unusually a particular route or an interesting usage; e.g. a first flight on a particular route.
- Circular Date Handstamp, the prefered type of cancellation for most modern postage stamps.
C.R. - Caledonian Railway.
C.T.O. - Cancelled to order.
Large cities that have many post offices offer great study opportunities due to the vast range of handstamps or machine cancellations in use over any time period.
Censored Mail -- A cover bearing a handstamp or label indicating that the envelope has been opened and read by a censor. Centering -- The relative position of the design of a stamp in relation to its margins.
'' Handstamped on a stamp, the T indicates the stamp's use as a postage due. Handstamped on a cover, it indicates that postage due has been charged. Several countries have used regular stamps with a perforated initial T as postage dues." ...
Precancel Device is any handstamp, printing plate, arrangement of movable type, mimeograph stencil, ...
As a result, some began carving cork into handstamp killer devices. Some of these cancels, mostly created during the 1860s and 1870s, were quite ornate, while others were political in nature.
Cachet. An impression generally applied to the face of an envelope by rubber handstamp or metal to commemorate an event.
Cameo Type. Stamps with the featured subject (portrait) upraised against a dark solid background, just as in the normal cameo.
In cover collecting, a cachet refers to a printed or handstamped design on an envelope denoting some special feature of the cover. Cachets appear on modern first-day covers, first-flight covers and special event covers.
expertizing committee applied to the reverse of a postage stamp, or the front and/or reverse of a cover, to assign a genuinity status to the item; the marking may be in form of pencilled initials or a name, or a small, non-obtrusive, inked handstamp ...
Cancellations covered range from carven corks and target killers to privately manufactured fancy cancels to combination postmarks of the early machine cancel era to handstamps for third and fourth class mail.
 See also: Stamp, Used, Cover, Cancel, Catalog
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